Citation: Ren-Zheng JIANG, Jun-Hua CHANG, Ying GAO, Jin-Feng ZHANG, Meng-Jiang LI, Ying-Peng XIE. Surface Sulfuration and Phosphorization Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Performance of Nickel Molybdate[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2022, 38(9): 1729-1738. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2022.172 shu

Surface Sulfuration and Phosphorization Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Performance of Nickel Molybdate

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College of Chemical Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China

Corresponding author: Ying-Peng XIE, ypxie@syuct.edu.cn
Received Date: 21 March 2022
Revised Date: 26 June 2022

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Herein, the nickel molybdate nanorods arrays supported on Ni foam (NMO/NF) precursor were firstly fabricated by hydrothermal method. Then the surface sulfidation and phosphating for NMO/NF were conducted in turn, to obtain a three-dimensional self-supported electrode (PS-NMO/NF). The sulfidation induces the formation of amorphous sulfides with significantly enhanced electrochemical active area on the surface of nickel molybdate (S- NMO/ NF), as well as a coral-like sphere structure. Phosphates were induced on the surface of sulfides by subsequent phosphating. The formed sulfides/phosphates heterogeneous interfaces can promote the electron transfer and improve the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance of NMO. In 1 mol·L^-1 KOH electrolyte, when the current density was 10 and 100 mA·cm^-2, the corresponding HER overpotential of PS-NMO/NF was 93 and 180 mV, respectively. The Tafel slope of PS-NMO/NF was 67 mV·dec^-1, and it had good stability within 20 h of running.
- nickel molybdate,
- sulfidation,
- phosphating,
- hydrogen evolution reaction
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